Memorial Weekend Pictures

Here are some pictures of what we planted this weekend and Kingsley rolling in the dirt. We finished the planting today and everything looks good. Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day Weekend

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Yesterday my family and my brother's friend went to see Iron Man 2 in the movie theaters. It was awesome! I enjoyed the story line, and the action was exciting. We recently rented and watched the first one a few weeks ago, and the sequel was just as good. We had to wait a few minutes at the end because after the credits, there was this little blurb that possibly could lead to another movie. We had actually missed the clip at the end of the credits when we watched the first one because someone took the DVD out too soon. Today, I have been working outside all day: planting and weeding. The weather is wonderful outside; it's sunny and in the low 80's, which made it nice to be outside. My dad went out this morning and got donuts for breakfast, which were tasty. And for some reason, I've been super accident prone today. I must have slept on my arm wrong last night because it's sore, I fell of my bike and scraped up my legs when I hit a rear-view mirror on my driveway, and I bruised my finger. Doesn't that sound like fun?!? Tomorrow, it's supposed to be just as nice, so we're going to finish planting and weeding. Now I have to go a play Mexican Train Dominoes and eat strawberry shortcake for desert.

Take That, Porfolio!

Finally, I'm done with my Portfolio. Yesterday, we were out all day at the mall, trying to find clothing for my sister's 20's party, so I didn't have much time to work on it then. I thought I was done 2 hours ago, but when I read one thing aloud, I found a bunch of mistakes that I missed. I also had a little scare when I found out that I had forgotten to add something to my front cover, and I had already printed it out on scrapbook paper. Luckily, my dad came up with the idea to just delete everything else on the page and reprint it out, and it worked. Thank goodness; I don't know what I would have done if something had been messed up. I would probably have a heart attack. It's also been really nice outside today, so I took Kingsley for a walk and played softball in our front yard with my dad. Actually, it's supposed to be sunny and in the 80's for the whole week, which is nice following all this nasty weather we've been having. Tomorrow is the start of the last full week in the 3 weeks we have left in the school year, and it's nice to see that the weather's cooperating with the image of "summer". That's pretty much it for now.

The Porfolio

It's finally Friday! This week has dragged on for so long and I'm so tired. I don't even now why I'm tired, I just am. Yesterday, I kept on thinking that it was Friday, and I kept on getting disappointed when I realized it was only Thursday. If anyone should be tired, it's my sister. She stayed up to 1 AM finishing her Portfolio for English. Compared to others, she went to bed really early; some only got an hour or less of sleep, some none. I'm going to try and finish mine before Sunday night, but you never know what pops up. Anyway, we were going to go Ann Arbor to see this free movie, but we decided that were to tired. We might still go there to try and rent a 20's costume for my sister (for her 20's party in English) at this vintage store we found on the Internet. Other than that an a bunch of tests this past week, nothing really exciting has happened.

Driver on the Loose

It's been raining for the past few days. It hasn't flooded or anything like that, but it defiantly been pouring. Tomorrow and the weekend are supposed to have better weather, which is great. Anyway there's been some exciting news to update you all with! Stay off the roads, because my sister has gotten her driver's licence. Now she can chauffeur me around! Oh, the life of a younger sibling is so wonderful sometimes. Yesterday, in English class, we had our Victorian Tea Party to celebrate the end of reading Great Expectations. As the character of Wemmick, I must say that I looked very authentic. That morning, I didn't eat breakfast because I have English 1st hour, and the food didn't disappoint! My dad made some of his wonderfully tasty scones, and there were some tarts, cucumber sandwiches, and other tasty tea food. At the end, not many of the scones were eaten, so I got to take home a bunch. More for us, I say! Other than that, this week has been pretty uneventful. I've been working on my Portfolio for English, and for History, I've made this Jeopardy PowerPoint about the 60's and 70's for US History, which is pretty cool. I guess I'm just ready for summer. Actually, on the topic of summer, my mom has started to plan a trip through New England and eastern Canada for next summer. Sounds like another fun trip I can blog for! That's pretty much all for now.

The State Competiton

Yesterday was a very busy day. First of all, I would like to congratulate my aunt and new uncle on their marriage yesterday. I wish I could have been there, but I hope you are enjoying married life. Not only was it my aunt's wedding yesterday, but also the Science Olympiad state competition. And to top it all off, my friend also had a horse show, as well. I'll begin with Science Olympiad. Well, I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning, which was horrible. We wanted to get to the Michigan State campus as soon as possible so we could claim the homeroom that we wanted, before another team did. Because the rooms aren't assigned beforehand, we had to get there super early, as soon as the doors were unlocked. I slept the car drive there. My first event, Picture This (a science related pictionary), started at 9:35, and I had two other events (Environmental Chemistry and Ecology) back to back after that. It was pretty hectic, running all over to opposite sides of the campus for each event. After that, I had a 3 hour break, which was nice. Then, my last event of the day, Anatomy, was at 3:00. It was really nice in that classroom because they had the windows open and the air conditioning on at full blast. As for the weather, the first half of the day, it was rainy, cloudy, and extremely humid. But, around 12:00 or so, the sun came out and the weather was beautiful.
Since the awards ceremony didn't start until 6:30 and was scheduled to end around two hours later, my family and a few other people on the team went out to eat for dinner. Dinner was fun time (one of the people eating with us stole another person on the team's cell phone and started texting people randomly, pretending to be a Chinese person named Sung-fu), but the award ceremony was a different matter. Our team sat at the very top of the bleachers in the auditorium that the ceremony was in, and it was hotter than blazes up there. There was no air circulation/conditioning, thousands of people were crammed in, and I was sweating bullets. It was pretty boring, as well, because it went on and on and our teams (high school and middle school) only won 4 medals (which were given out to the top 6 teams) and we weren't allowed to cheer for them individually. I still cheered. Near the end, some of the scores were still being calculated, so this one guy came up and made a speech. It was hard to understand what he was saying because he had a pretty heavy accent of some sort, and at one point we misheard "a career in science" as "Korean Science." Since he was an astrophysicist, we concluded that he was secretly creating nuclear missiles for North Korea (we were a little tired by now). Also, there was this random stranger that kept on taking pictures of one of parents, which was really strange.
Even though I thought that I did pretty well on 3 of my 4 events, my placings were a little disappointing. I got 19th out of 48 teams in Anatomy and Ecology, 17th on Environmental Chemistry, and the high school team got 18th overall. That's not bad, but I could have done better. The middle school was also a little disappointing; overall, they got 23rd, and the team that I coached, Ecology, got 40th, which is last place. If your confused of how 40th could be last place when there are 48 teams: they stop placing at 40th because they "don't want to hurt people's feelings." I don't know about you, I'd rather know where I placed. Even with all these complaints, yesterday was really fun. I love the state competition and I spent the day traversing across the MSU campus, which is actually a really nice campus. I'm still glad it's over; no more all day Saturday practices until next year! Once again, I offer my congratulations to my aunt and her new husband on their marriage.